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The next step is a robot police next to the self checkout that will grab shoplifters

• vorpalhex 3y ago
  Solution is easier than that. Charge people $99/year to enter the store. It won't be sold that way. It'll be bundled. You'll pay your fee for free shipping and some music/video access and oh also here are retail stores just for "members".
  • mcphage 3y ago
    Or go back to the old fashioned model of "you tell the clerk what you want, and they fetch it for you". The last store I'm aware of that did that faded away in my lifetime. (Brand Names, although maybe it still exists somewhere). I remember going to Toys-R-Us as a kid, and to purchase video games, you took a ticket off of the wall, and paid for it, and then exchanged the ticket for the actual item at a locked booth near the exit.
    • Avshalom 3y ago
      We've been moving back to that. Curbside/instore pickup (and now curbside returns) is a thing at most of the major retailers. It got a big push during pandemic store closures but e.g. Target had been doing it since 2014ish
      • mcphage 3y ago
        I didn’t even make that connection, but you’re right—that’s basically the same thing.
  • Avshalom 3y ago
    Costco/Samsclub are already there.